Training & development
Community pharmacy is changing and in the future pharmacists’ medical expertise will be crucial in delivering NHS England’s Long-Term Plan. All pharmacy team members will have opportunities to update their skills to help them provide the services the NHS needs.
A number of national (and local) organisations develop and design learning resources and campaigns for pharmacy professionals at all stages of their career to help improve performance, boost productivity and keep community pharmacists, and their staff teams, abreast of industry developments as they happen.
Your LPCs (and CPE) also deliver practical, up-to-the-minute learning on topical issues that can be applied straight away, usually by webinar. See our ‘events’.
Our CPSS newsletter is sent directly to all community pharmacists on our mailing list. Sign up to our mailing list here to hear about local and national training events.
For quick access to our training information and to watch all our webinars on demand, please click here.
These sections are refreshed often so keep checking back regularly
Training by provider
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CPPEs purpose is to help you fulfil your potential and they offer a range of creative learning opportunities to do just that. Training opportunities include training for services provision, which may be linked in with other information about service delivery such as health checks or sexual health services or NHS priorities.
CPPE offer a number of training types for more information visit their website here.
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NHS Workforce, Training and Education (NHS WT&E) exists for one reason only: to support the delivery of excellent healthcare and health improvement to the patients and public of England.
Working across the south east, they ensure that the workforce of today and tomorrow has the right numbers, skills, values and behaviours, at the right time and in the right place. Read more
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Watch-on-demand.
Smoking Cessation Service launch webinar – 14th February 2024
CPSS along with the NHS SCS Implementation Team MLCSU, University Hospital Sussex and Sussex ICB colleagues hosted a launch webinar for the advance NHS Smoking Cessation Service. In preparation of the hospitals going live, we hosted a webinar as a launch event to support the hospitals in referring patients and the community pharmacy teams in undertaking the service once a referral has been made and sent to the pharmacy.
Discharge Medicine Service Sussex – 8th March 2022
CPSS along with University Hospital Sussex hosted a webinar for the essential DMS service to support hospitals with making appropriate referrals and community pharmacies with actioning and claiming these referrals.
Discharge Medicine Service Surrey – 7th December 2022
CPSS along with Surrey Heartlands ICB hosted a webinar for the essential DMS service to support hospitals with making appropriate referrals and community pharmacies with actioning and claiming these referrals.
Discharge Medicine Service refresher video – 6th March 2024
This refresher video on the DMS service was made in collaboration with the Ashford and St Peters Hospital and Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust teams at the relaunch of the service in these hospitals. The aim of the video is to provide staff at the hospitals with support in referring patients into the DMS service and to remind community pharmacy teams of the actions that must be taken once a referral is received.
Pharmacy First GP Training Video – 15th May 2024
CPSS produced this training video to introduce the Pharmacy First service to General Practice staff and to support staff with making referrals into community pharmacy. If surgeries wish for this training to be delivered by the CPSS team, please contact us on LPC@communitypharmacyss.co.uk.
Pharmacy First Training Video for Hospital Staff – 5th June 2024
CPSS produced this training video on Pharmacy First for hospital staff. The aim of the video is to provide staff working in hospitals with an overview of the service and training on who can be appropriately referred into a community pharmacy under Pharmacy First.
Improving physical health in people with SMI in Sussex – 19th March 2024
Dr. Lindsay Hadley FRCGP, NHS Sussex lead for physical health checks for people with severe mental illness, designed this session to support pharmacy teams to understand and raise awareness of Severe Mental Illness Healthchecks.
Understanding inflammatory bowel disease & autoimmune hepatitis webinar – 14th November 2024
This webinar designed by IBD consultant pharmacist, Fiona Rees, from University Hospitals Sussex to provide training to support understanding and confidence in Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and autoimmune hepatitis (AIH).
Hypertension webinar – 13th November 2024
Guest Speakers Alison Warren (Consultant Pharmacist Cardiology FRPharmS, FFRPS, BPharm, DipClinPharm, MSc, PharmIP. University Hospitals Sussex (Brighton) and Sussex Integrated Care Board)and Mike Okorie (Consultant Physician and Associate Medical Director for Medicines Safety & Prescribing; Professor of Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics and Head, Department of Medical Education, BSMS; RCP Regional Specialty Adviser for Clinical Pharmacology in Kent, Surrey & Sussex) designed this training webinar to support colleagues to fully embed the hypertensive case finding service and explore opportunities to increase service delivery.
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Training by topic
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All pharmacy staff involved in the provision of the service should receive appropriate training relevant to the role they will undertake and pharmacy owners are required to demonstrate that all staff providing the service in their pharmacy have the skills needed to do so.
The content of vaccination training
The National Minimum Standards and Core Curriculum for Immunisation Training for Registered Healthcare Practitioners sets the standards and lists the essential topics which should be incorporated into immunisation training for registered healthcare practitioners. Pharmacists and other vaccinators who will administer flu vaccines must have completed practical training in vaccination that meets these requirements.
CPSS does not offer any face to face flu vaccination training, however there are a number of organisations that provide vaccination training for pharmacists.
Further information on the training requirements and a list of training providers are available on the CPE website here.
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- CPE advice and FAQs on all aspects of providing this service, from training to getting paid and ordering vaccines to promoting your service.
- For more information visit our “Advanced services” page here.
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Please find the link here to CPE briefing on training requirements.
The public health agenda is embedded in pharmacy, yet topics such as emergency contraception or stop smoking support are as prevalent as ever. As well as public health workshops, pharmacies should use this section to access a wide range of resources to assure and maintain competence, all underpinned by the Declaration of Competence system.
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- CPPE training website
- Review you Local Essential Guide here for information on training requirements for specific locally commissioned services.
Continued professional development
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CPPE support for registered professionals is available on the links below:
Developing your career | Providing pharmacy services | Enhancing your skills | Clinical pharmacy and therapeutics | Supporting educators and trainers| Supporting you
Pharmacy technicians are GPhC registered key members of the pharmacy and multidisciplinary teams who play an integral role in helping patients to get the most out of their medicines. Pharmacy technicians can develop a rewarding and skilled career throughout a variety of different avenues and platforms.
To find out more click here.
Association of Pharmacy Technicians United Kingdom (APTUK) is the national professional leadership body for pharmacy technicians working in all pharmacy sectors across all countries in the UK: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales more info can be found here.
Pharmacy South East Pharmacy Technician Network Hub
NHS England would like to widen their engagement with pharmacy technicians in different sectors.
The Pharmacy South East Pharmacy Technician Hub provides a space for employers of PTPTs and pharmacy technicians from various backgrounds to have an opportunity to collaborate and discuss topics with their peers, as well as share resources
Pharmacy Technicians in community pharmacy are encouraged to join this network hub. Please complete this short survey if you would like to join the workspace.
A number of training opportunities are available for Pharmacy Technicians, please see below and follow the links:
CPPE Pharmacy Technician Advancing your Role
CPPE Pharmacy Technicians Enhancing your Professional Practice
CPPE Pharmacy technicians: using patient group directions in practice
CPPE Patient group directions (elearning for healthcare)
CPPE Pharmacy Technician Impact Groups
CPPE Urgent care: the role of community pharmacy and the NHS Pharmacy First service
CPPE Consultation skills for pharmacy practice
CPPE Professionalism and Professional Judgement for Pharmacy Technicians
NHS England’s funded training for the independent prescribing course after March 2025 is currently in process. The latest information can be found here.
CPSS in collaboration with Surrey Heartlands and Sussex ICBs may be able to support community pharmacists in searching for a DPP. For further information on DPPs and funding, please see below your respective ICB.
Surrey Heartlands ICB
Surrey Heartlands ICB have secured some additional funding via the Surrey Heartlands Workforce Innovation Fund to support 40 community pharmacists to access a Designated Prescribing Practitioner (DPP) to supervise their IP training. The scheme provides a £2600 financial contribution to a DPP’s employer for being a DPP supervisor for a community pharmacist working within the Surrey Heartlands geography (for 3 or more days per week). If you would like further information or would like to submit an expression of interest on this project, please contact: Ritienne Fenech – Pharmacy Workforce Transformation Programme Lead, Surrey Heartlands: ritienne.fenech@nhs.net
Sussex ICB
Community Pharmacy Surrey and Sussex in collaboration with Sussex Training Hub and Sussex ICB Workforce Transformation Lead submitted a funding bid for the NHS England Teach and Treat Programme and successfully secured £28,400. This amazing funding has been used to support 10 community pharmacists in Sussex to secure a DPP to support with their Independent Prescribing course.
Please check back regularly for further opportunities to support pharmacists with the independent prescribing course and securing DPPs.
For further information please contact LPC@communitypharmacyss.co.uk.
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